Personalities ALDERSHOT WOMAN RECALLS BARRYMORE ON FILM SET VERSATILE, LOVESICK, TEMPERAMENTAL IN ROCKIES The death of Lionel Barrymore, colourful, raspy-voiced Hollywood actor, saddened the hearts of many theatre goers, and in particular, that of an Aldershot woman, Mrs. Robert Lemon, who first met the actor on the set of Unseeing Eyes. From her comfortable home today Mrs. Lemon reviewed the seven glorious weeks, when, she as a 19-year-old school teacher on her first duty in the Canadian Rockies was flung into the limelight moving picture world with other Invermere Hotel guests. It happened very suddenly on a brisk, more than usually cold March morning in 1923. Waterdown-born Olive Langton, the local school teacher in the Banff and Windermere country, found herself brushing shoulders with the Hollywood set, and in particular the handsome Barrymore who was then boyish and forty-ish. FIRST CANADIAN MOVIE It was Barrymore's first (and last) Canadian movie - a melodramatic photoplay adapted from the Arthur Stringer story, Snowblind. It was also the first time in the history of picture-making that aeroplanes were used in productions, and of course, the first time in the Canadian Rockies. Mrs. Lemon recalled those seven weeks dreamily, and sometimes in a nightmarish sort of way, as she put it. Barrymore was a temperamental and unsettled actor. He was at once lonely, annoyed, fidgety and lovesick. For it was Barrymore in one of his greatest romances with Irene Fenwick (pronounced Fennick, as the reporters then were careful to say). But Irene was in New York City, and Barrymore, in the desolate north. Those seven weeks, for Mrs. Lemon, were more than memorable. The first day Barrymore arrived he flung some artificial flowers on the floor - the hotel staff had fresh ones brought in from Calgary. Then it was Barrymore and the telephone - he paced the floor for hours waiting to hear from his fiancee or his lawyers. CODED MESSAGES (He was then divorcing his first wife). Barrymore was more than usually suspicious about his confreres on the set of Unseeing Eyes. He even coded endearing words with the local telegrapher when he sent daily messages to his fiancee. He needed only to present a row of figures, say 7, 6, 2 and 1, which could have stood for Heart of my heart, I cry for you, etc. There was excitement too at Invermere when Casey Jones, American WorId War 1 pilot, flew the two-seater plane above the snow-capped Rockies; Mrs. Lemon earned the distinction of being the first Canadian woman to fly over the Rockies. The experience was thrilling, she remembers, way up 10,000 feet above sea level. With Barrymore there was Eddie Laurence who played instock in Hamilton, Paul Panzer, Frances Red Eagle, the Indian girl in the film, Walter Miller and Ray Hurlburt, cameramen.